Climate Change News and Articles

2014-12-30Snow may disrupt New Year's Eve in Las Vegas— "If Sin City's sports books took bets on the weather, snow in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve would normally have terrible odds. It might pay out this year, though, if the white flurries start falling on the Strip's desert-dwelling casinos as expected Wednesday night. Those huddled in New York City to watch the ball drop could expect a mostly sunny Wednesday with a low of 27 degrees by evening. No chance of snow. But forecasts in Las Vegas pinned the area's chances on New Year's Eve snow at 70 percent, along with a 32-degree low...."

2014-12-18 Two Thousand Years of Northern European Summer Temperatures Show a Downward Trend — "In a paper published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, Esper et al. (2014) ... combined portions of each to produce a new-and-improved summer temperature history for northern Europe that stretches all the way 'from 17 BC to the present.' And what did they thereby learn? ... [That] history depicts 'a long-term cooling trend of -0.30°C per 1,000 years over the Common Era in northern Europe'.... Most important of all, however, they note that their temperature reconstruction ... indicate[s] that 'conditions during Medieval and Roman times were probably warmer than in the late 20th century'.... And so we continue to collect ever more real-world evidence for the fact, that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the Earth’s current level of warmth."

2014-11-20 Great Lakes Area Residents Prepare for More Snow — "Two days after a major lake-effect snow event dumped more than 60 inches of snow on areas south of Buffalo, killing at least 10 people and stranding others in vehicles for more than 24 hours, residents are being warned that another two or three feet of snowfall could be on the way. 'We are expecting up to another 2 feet or so in the Lake Erie snowbelts through early Friday,' said weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman. 'However, the heaviest snow will fall to the south of the most snow-beleaguered areas of the Buffalo Southtowns.' Snow also fell in other Great Lakes states, including northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where up to two feet of snow blew ashore.

2014-11-01Early season snow wreaks havoc in Southern United States — "An early season snow is combining with gusty winds to cause power outages, road closures and other adverse impacts across the South. At the peak of the snow, tens of thousands of people were without power in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia According to weather.com senior meteorologist Jonathan Erdman, the unique combination of snow, wind and the time of year is contributing to these power outages...." [So much for global warming, eh? Oh, sorry, "Climate Change". Of course the alarmists can now attribute any weather to climate change, how convenient. Even though historically, long before man could have any impact, there were — surprise, surprise — early season snow storms in the South.]

2014-10-23 Weather Channel founder speaks against climate alarmism — John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible. Instead, what 'little evidence' there is for rising global temperatures points to a 'natural phenomenon' within a developing eco-system. In an open letter attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he wrote: 'The ocean is not rising significantly. The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number. Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing). I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid.'"

2014-09-23Scientific study published by National Academy of Sciences attributes Northeast Pacific temperature change primarily to changes in atmospheric circulation— "Northeast Pacific coastal warming since 1900 is often ascribed to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing, whereas multidecadal temperature changes are widely interpreted in the framework of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), which responds to regional atmospheric dynamics. This study uses several independent data sources to demonstrate that century-long warming around the northeast Pacific margins, like multidecadal variability, can be primarily attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation. It presents a significant reinterpretation of the region's recent climate change origins, showing that atmospheric conditions have changed substantially over the last century, that these changes are not likely related to historical anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing, and that dynamical mechanisms of interannual and multidecadal temperature variability can also apply to observed century-long trends...."

2014-09-19 Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Numbers — "The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) was recently forced to admit it alters the temperatures recorded at almost all the official weather stations in Australia. The ABM came clean on its temperature fiddling largely because of the fierce scrutiny of Graham Lloyd, environment editor for The Australian and The Weekend Australian, who published a series of articles on the ABM’s number-fudging. Using a process it calls homogenization, ABM has replaced actual temperature measurements with massaged numbers. ABM claims anomalies have arisen in both the historical data and current measurements due to a wide variety of factors unrelated to climate, such as differing types of instruments used, choices of calibration or enclosure and where it was located, and the closure of some stations and opening of others. The ABM argues such factors justify homogenization of the numbers. Critics point out a much worse anomaly in the homegenization process: Almost all the alterations resulted in higher temperatures being reported for the present and lower numbers for the past--with the higher numbers being used to demonstrate a historical warming trend--than the numbers that were actually recorded. Downward homogenizations in recent years were rare. In some areas, downward temperature trends measured over time showed a significantly increased temperature trend after homogenization. The difference between actually measured temperatures and homogenized temperatures topped 4 degrees Celsius over certain periods at some measuring stations...."

2014-09-18 Stand-up Comic Mocks Gore and Global Warming Alarmism — (video) "Here's the deal, folks. Al Gore and some other dudes bought some companies and stocks in green technology and now all they have to do is scare the living daylights out of you until you are begging for a carbon tax... They just tell you the debate is over.... That's another funny one, the debate is over. 'I'll have to take all your money or the world will end. I'm sorry, the debate is over'...."

2014-09-17 Taxpayer-funded Climate Change Musical Flops — "The curtain has come down on Climate Change: The Musical and reviews of the taxpayer-funded play about global warming are downright icy. The play, which is actually entitled 'The Great Immensity,' and was produced by Brooklyn-based theater company The Civilians, Inc. with a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, ended its run early amid a storm of criticism from reviewers and lawmakers alike. It opened a year late, reached just five percent of its anticipated audience and likely fell short of its ambitious goal of informing a new generation about the perceived dangers of man-caused climate change. Plus, it apparently wasn't very good...." [Are we living in Communist Russia? What on earth is the U.S. Government doing funding BLATANT political propaganda? The people behind this are corrupt to the core. Give us taxpayers our money back, for goodness sakes!!!! Of course they won't do that — once in power and funded, bureaucrats aren't accountable to anybody. At the very least they could have a titch of integrity and spend the money on scientific research into REAL issues, instead of playing Chicken Little on a global scale!]

2014-09-04 Whatever Happened to Global Warming? — "On Sept. 23 the United Nations will host a party for world leaders in New York to pledge urgent action against climate change. Yet leaders from China, India and Germany have already announced that they won't attend the summit and others are likely to follow, leaving President Obama looking a bit lonely. Could it be that they no longer regard it as an urgent threat that some time later in this century the air may get a bit warmer? In effect, this is all that's left of the global-warming emergency the U.N. declared in its first report on the subject in 1990. The U.N. no longer claims that there will be dangerous or rapid climate change in the next two decades.... Let's hope that the United Nations admits as much on day one of its coming jamboree and asks the delegates to pack up, go home and concentrate on more pressing global problems like war, terror, disease, poverty, habitat loss and the 1.3 billion people with no electricity."

2014-09-03 Are Opinions on Climate Change Related to Dependency on Government Money? — "...New research increasingly casts doubt on the validity of climate models and their projections of future climate change. It is increasing clear that climate models simply predict too much warming from human greenhouse gas emissions. But the scientific community, or at least that part of it which makes its living off climate alarm, is slow to accept this. Who can blame these folks? More money flows from the government into universities (or government labs) to study the effects of climate change if we all agree that human greenhouse gas emissions are leading to climate change of a dangerous magnitude. So it is left to the emeritus or retired profs to lay bare the truth...."

2014-08-27 Climate Alarmism: When Is This Bozo Going Down? — "Climate alarmism is like one of those pop-up Bozos. No matter how many times you bop it, up it springs.... Two scientific papers released last week combine for a powerful 1-2 haymaker, but, rest assured, Bozo springs eternal. The first says that human aerosol emissions are not that responsible for offsetting the warming influence of greenhouse gas emissions, while the second finds that the observed warming from human greenhouse gases is less than a lot of people think...."

2014-08-06 Lawless "Billionaire Club" Behind Green Scam, Senate Study Finds — "A shadowy network identified as the 'Billionaires Club' is showering funds on the environmentalist so-called 'green movement.' In addition, this network may be violating federal laws in its controversial efforts to elect its operatives, seize control of the federal regulatory regime, and push its radical agenda on America, according to a new report by Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Now that the Billionaires Club has purchased so much power, it is using its agents in the bureaucracy to further fleece taxpayers to advance its own goals by granting its front groups even more money, the Senate investigators found...."

2014-07-30 United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Staff Report — The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA — "An elite group of left wing millionaires and billionaires, which this report refers to as the 'Billionaire's Club,' who directs and controls the far-left environmental movement, which in turn controls major policy decisions and lobbies on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Even more unsettling, a dominant organization in this movement is Sea Change Foundation, a private California foundation, which relies on funding from a foreign company with undisclosed donors. In turn, Sea Change funnels tens of millions of dollars to other large but discreet foundations and prominent environmental activists who strive to control both policy and politics. This report examines in detail the mechanisms and methods of a far-left environmental machine that has been erected around a small group of powerful and active millionaires and billionaires who exert tremendous sway over a colossal effort. Although startling in its findings, the report covers only a small fraction of the amount of money that is being secreted and moved around. It would be virtually impossible to examine this system completely given the enormity of this carefully coordinated effort and the lack of transparency surrounding it...."

2014-06-23 Rigged Science— "With the global warming scam unraveling before his very eyes, President Obama and his administration want action now. 'The question is not whether we need to act,' says Mr. Obama. 'The overwhelming judgment of science, accumulated and measured and reviewed over decades, has put that question to rest. The question is whether we have the will to act before it's too late.' Too late for what? The planetary thermometer hasn't budged in 15 years. Wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes and other 'extreme' weather events are at normal or below-normal levels. Pacific islands aren't submerged. There's so much ice the polar bears are celebrating...."

2014-06-21 The scandal of fiddled global warming data — "The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record. When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world's most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been 'adjusting' its record by replacing real temperatures with data 'fabricated' by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data...."

2014-06-12 Great Lakes finally ice-free after record ice longevity — With summer just around the corner, for the first time in seven months the Great Lakes are officially free of ice.... Following one of the coldest winter's on record for the region with temperatures from Jan. 1 to April 1 averaging seven degrees below normal, the Great Lakes hit their second highest ice coverage on record, reaching 92.19 percent on March 6, 2014.

2014-06-09 Hidden volcanoes melt Antarctic glaciers from below — "Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you'll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes. Now, a new study finds that these subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal hotspots are contributing to the melting of Thwaites Glacier... The researchers checked out the subglacial geology in the region and found that fast-melting spots were disproportionately clustered near confirmed West Antarctic volcanoes, suspected volcanoes or other presumed hotspots." [See also: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-major-west-antarctic-glacier-geothermal.html]

2014-05-26 The Myth of the Climate Change '97%' — Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the 'crippling consequences' of climate change. 'Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists,' he added, 'tell us this is urgent.' ...Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research...."

2014-05-20 UN climate change expert reveals bias in global warming report — "The [latest IPCC] report also illustrates just how outmoded the IPCC has become since it was founded in 1988. Its reports are written over a period of three years, and finished months before publication. When preparations started on AR5, the world hadn't warmed for 13 years. That is a bit odd, if you believe the models, but not odd enough to merit a lot of attention. By the time the report was finished, however, it hadn’t warmed for 17 years. That is decidedly odd, but hard to accommodate in a near-final draft that has been through three rounds of review.... Here are some suggestions: Away with the infrequent, massive set pieces. Away with alarmism – that has been tried for 25 years, with no discernible impact on emissions. Away with activists posing as scientists. Away with the freshman mistakes. Just good, sober, solid science. Let the chips fall where they may...."

2014-05-06 Scientists are not saints in white laboratory smocks — "George Will told viewers Tuesday on 'Special Report with Bret Baier' that 'scientists are not saints in white laboratory smocks' after the White House released a National Climate Assessment report concluding that the effects of global warming are harming the nation.... 'If you want money from the biggest source of direct research in this country, the federal government, don't question its orthodoxy.' Will added that there is no evidence for the increase in extreme weather and cited a former vice president who was also big on climate change: 'Al Gore, who in 2008, said by 2013, for those of you keeping score at home, that's last year, the ice cap in The North Pole would be gone. It's not.'"

2014-04-17 Chicken Little 'science' — "The cult centered on 'global warming' alarmism is getting hot under the collar. People seem to have stopped paying attention and polls show 'climate change' barely registers on a list of voters' concerns. This can only mean, as losing politicians like to say, that their message isn't getting through. What to do? Why shout louder, of course...."

2014-03-28 Co-author of draft UN climate change report resigns with objections — "One of the authors of a draft United Nations report aimed at helping governments reach an international climate agreement has pulled out of the writing team, claiming his colleagues were being too alarmist about the threat of climate change.... Richard Tol, a professor of economics at Sussex University in England, said he disagreed with some findings of the summary to be released later this month in Japan, where scientists from 100 countries are currently meeting to edit and approve the report...."

2014-03-22 Occam's Razor and Climate Change — "So why does applying the principle of Occam's Razor force us to reject the theory that anthropogenic CO2 is the main driver of contemporary climate change? The reason is that nature has produced periods of warming similar to the recent warming, without any significant contribution from Anthropogenic CO2.... As Professor Phil Jones of the CRU once admitted in an interview with the BBC, the instrumental record contains periods of warming which are statistically indistinguishable from the 1990s warming – periods of warming which cannot have been driven by anthropogenic CO2, because they occurred before humans had made a significant changes to global CO2 levels...."

2014-03-21 IPCC scientists knew data and science inadequacies contradicted certainties presented to media, public and politicians, but remained silent — "Realities about climate models [are that] they don't and can't work because data, knowledge of atmospheric, oceanographic, and extraterrestrial mechanisms, and computer capacity are all totally inadequate. Computer climate models are a waste of time and money.... Inadequacies are confirmed by the complete failure of all forecasts, predictions, projections, prognostications, or whatever they call them. It is one thing to waste time and money playing with climate models in a laboratory, where they don't meet minimum scientific standards, it is another to use their results as the basis for public policies where the economic and social ramifications are devastating. Equally disturbing and unconscionable is the silence of scientists involved in the IPCC who know the vast difference between the scientific limitations and uncertainties and the certainties produced in the Summary for Policymakers (SPM). IPCC scientists knew of the inadequacies from the start...."

2014-03-05 Great Lakes ice coverage second greatest recorded — "Got ice? The Great Lakes certainly do, with ice coverage at its highest percentage in 35 years, according to scientists from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.... As of Wednesday morning, 91% of the Great Lakes were ice-covered, which is the second-highest level since records began, according to the laboratory. The previous second place record was in 1994, at 90.7%. The record of almost 95% was set in February 1979...."

2014-02-26 Greenpeace co-founder: No scientific proof humans are dominant cause of warming climate — "A co-founder of Greenpeace told lawmakers there is no evidence man is contributing to climate change, and said he left the group when it became more interested in politics than the environment. Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist and business consultant who was a member of Greenpeace from 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like the one he helped establish use faulty computer models and scare tactics in promoting claims man-made gases are heating up the planet...."

2014-02-18 Five scientific reasons that global warming isn't happening — "How did global warming discussions end up hinging on what's happening with polar bears, unverifiable predictions of what will happen in a hundred years, and whether people are "climate deniers" or "global warming cultists?" If this is a scientific topic, why aren't we spending more time discussing the science involved? Why aren't we talking about the evidence and the actual data involved? Why aren't we looking at the predictions that were made and seeing if they match up to the results? If this is such an open and shut case, why are so many people who care about science skeptical? Many Americans have long since thought that the best scientific evidence available suggested that man wasn't causing any sort of global warming. However, now, we can go even further and suggest that the planet isn't warming at all...."

2014-02-16 Alaska sets wind chill record — "Alaska hit its all-time lowest recorded wind chill on Friday. At 3:39 p.m., sensors at Howard Pass in the Brooks Range picked up a wind chill of minus 97 degrees Fahrenheit. That's calculated from a recorded temperature of minus 42 degrees and a sustained northern wind of 71 mph. A gust also was recorded at 78 mph...." [Darn that global warming! No doubt the alarmists will try to tell us that it's "man-made climate change", caused somehow by non-existent global warming. Meanwhile, I defy every single alarmist, scientist or otherwise, to prove that this "record" wind chill is worse than thousands of low wind chills that haven't been recorded over the centuries. The bottom line? It's not an anomaly. The climate changes all the time, up and down, cold, hot, stormy, calm, and mankind's influence is negligible.]

2014-02-12 Brutal winter freezes Lake Superior — "Hell may not freeze over, but experts say Lake Superior could this winter, for the first time this century. The world's largest freshwater lake was 87.1 percent iced over as of Tuesday, and could soon be virtually covered, thanks to an unrelenting winter in which the mercury has fallen even harder than snow, leaving ice several feet thick in some areas.... Professor Jay Austin, also of the University of Minnesota's Large Lakes Observatory, said he expects ice coverage to exceed the 20-year-record of 91 percent on the 31,700-square-mile lake before spring...."

2014-02-12 U.S. South gets hit with another ice storm — "Another wintry storm barreled across the southern United States on Wednesday, causing North Carolina drivers caught in monumental traffic jams to abandon their cars as highways became iced while hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses lost electricity.... As the storm glazed the South with snow and freezing rain, it also pushed northward along the Interstate 95 corridor, threatening to bring more than a foot of snow Thursday to the already sick-of-winter mid-Atlantic and Northeast...."

2014-01-04 Polar vortex to bring dangerous record-breaking cold to much of US — "As much of the country digs out from a powerful winter storm that buried parts of the Northeast, tundra-like temperatures are poised to deliver a rare and potentially dangerous blow to the Midwest, with forecasters predicting a near-record or historic cold outbreak.... Meanwhile, some cities saw record lows on Friday. In Wisconsin, a record low temperature was set in Green Bay, where the mercury dipped to minus 18. The National Weather Service said that topped the 17-below-zero mark last recorded in 1979...." [Hmmm... Wasn't it back in the 70s when chicken-little doomsday scientists were predicting the next ice age, and radical political activists were striving to get governments to take drastic measures to stop global cooling????? Yep.]

2014-01-04 Trapped in ice that is supposed to be melting — "Responding to a request from Russia, China and Australia, a U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker will leave Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said...." [The icebreakers got trapped in the ice attempting to free a trapped research vessel that had set out to prove that global warming is melting Antarctica ice. You really can't make this stuff up....]

2014-01-04 Al Sharpton in denial — Sharpton accuses "right-wingers" of being in denial about global warming. I find it funny that the alarmists call us skeptics "deniers". They are the ones who are now denying that weather patterns and cooling trends have destroyed their pet theory. They are the ones denying that all their wild predictions have turned out to be bunk. They are the real deniers. They even changed their crusade from "global warming" to "climate change" to obfuscate their error. (Based on the video, I don't think Sharpton got that memo.)